The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages of hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store.
A white gunman fatally shot three Black people in hate-motivated shooting at a Dollar General retailer in Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon, Sheriff T.K. Waters said.
“This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people,” the sheriff said at a news conference. “He wanted to kill n------.”
Glossing over the fact that everyone is a product of their environment, you completely missed my meaning.
I’m not talking about why Trump is the way he is, I’m talking about his political success and rise to power. It could never have happened if the social climate wasn’t already there. Yes, he obviously made things much worse, but he didn’t even have a hand in creating the current climate among the conservative base.
They were like this for years before he was politically relevant; all he really did was stoke the fire. He made them feel safe to come out in the open by finally saying the all the quiet parts out loud, and he gave them a confident, charismatic figurehead to rally around.
He didn’t create the cult, he just took control of it.